From the early years of women's liberation, Playboy was a consistent target of protests and picketers for its "perpetuation of degrading stereotypes of women." (21) Hefner biographer Russell Miller writes: "[Feminists] infiltrated the Playboy Mansion in Chicago and plastered the paintings in the ballroom with anti-Playboy stickers. Demonstrations took place outside Playboy Clubs and at Grinnell College in Iowa, [where] half a dozen male and female students stripped during a visit by a Playboy representative." (22) One Grinnell woman declared: "We protest Playboy's images of lapdog female playthings with idealized proportions.... The Playboy bunnies are an affront to human sexual dignity." (23) Despite Hefner's perception that militant feminism was the thorn in his side, activists from various points on the feminist spectrum targeted Playboy.

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